Journal
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00607-19
Keywords
LPAIV; Mycoplasma gallisepticum; RNA-seq; avian influenza A virus; chicken; immune response
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Funding
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health and Disease project [1010590]
- Center of Excellence for Vaccine Research
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch project [1010739]
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The avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum, the etiological agent of chronic respiratory disease in chickens, exhibits enhanced pathogenesis in the presence of a copathogen such as low-pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV). To further investigate the intricacies of this copathogenesis, chickens were monoinfected or coinfected with either virulent M. gallisepticum strain R-low or LPAIV H3N8 (A/duck/Ukraine/1963), with assessment of tracheal histopathology, pathogen load, and transcriptomic host responses to infection by RNA sequencing. Chickens coinfected with M. gallisepticum R-low followed by LPAIV H3N8 exhibited significantly more severe tracheal lesions and mucosal thickening than chickens infected with LPAIV H3N8 alone and greater viral loads than chickens infected first with H3N8 and subsequently with M. gallisepticum R-low. Recovery of live M. gallisepticum was significantly higher in chickens infected first with LPAIV H3N8 and then with M. gallisepticum R-low, compared to chickens given a mock infection followed by M. gallisepticum R-low. The transcriptional responses to monoinfection and coinfection with M. gallisepticum and LPAIV highlighted the involvement of differential expression of genes such as Toll-like receptor 15, Toll-like receptor 21, and matrix metallopeptidase 1. Pathway and gene ontology analyses of these differentially expressed genes suggest that coinfection with virulent M. gallisepticum and LPAIV induces decreases in the expression of genes related to ciliary activity in vivo and alters multiple immune-related signaling cascades. These data aid in the understanding of the relationship between M. gallisepticum and LPAIV during copathogenesis in the natural host and may contribute to further understanding of copathogen infections of humans and other animals.
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